Is the Future of Business sharing?

At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh talks about a future of business that’s about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries — from music to cars — show how close we are to this meshy future. Great Line: “We are more connected Read More …

Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace

From the McGraw-Hill Press Release: Social Media. Brand Collaboration. Content aggregation. Microblogging. User-generated content. And the list goes on… It’s been said that business is in the midst of the customer-centric marketing revolution—a trend which points toward business treating brands less like “property” and more like an extension of an organization’s values. The upshot is Read More …

Need to grow by innovation, consider the little i versus the big I.

Need to grow by innovation? Consider the little I versus the big I. You will have a little less risk, less time to market and as a result quicker cash flow. If innovation means product development, then it really becomes one of the key corporate growth strategies and that is we’re going to grow by Read More …

ASQ Columbus Spring Conference will host Marketing with Lean

The theme of the ASQ Columbus Spring Conference 2011 is Leadership through Quality. After enjoying morning and after-lunch key-note speakers, attendees will have the opportunity to choose from both morning and afternoon tracks covering more than 14 different topics to include Marketing with Lean and I will be presenting it! The conference is held at Read More …

Left Brain vs Right Brain = Management vs. Marketing

I was reading the book, War in the Boardroom: Why Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Marketing Don’t See Eye-to-Eye–and What to Do About It, looking for a few ideas on how to approach Lean concepts to marketing and more specifically CMOs. Of course, we all know trying to apply a discipline to a bunch of right Read More …

Where is the path in Continuous Improvement for Sales and Marketing?

In the sales and marketing process we have always stayed away from a process. Things were just not consistent enough to enable us to install a process. Very few people take on the challenge of bringing continuous improvement to sales and marketing and one of the reasons it is so difficult is that sales always Read More …